Barings and Canyon price new US BSL CLOs
Barings CLO 2026-III was valued at USD 407.3m, while Canyon CLO 2026-2 weighed in at just over USD 500m

CLO hiring market heats up ahead of summer break
The CLO hiring market is boiling over – here’s a roundup of the moves we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks

Palmer Square prices new US CLO with weighted cost of debt under 148bps
The beginning of the week also saw Arini price its seventh US CLO via Scotiabank

Permira upsizes for second new US CLO of 2026
Arranged by SMBC Nikko, the BSL deal was upsized to a target par of USD 425m

SMBC hires JPM alum to head EMEA SPG syndication
EXCLUSIVE: The bank has made a string of CLO-related hires globally this spring, after previously poaching top CLO bankers from JPMorgan in 2024

Blue Owl resets 2023-vintage private credit CLO, trims weighted cost of debt by more than 110bps
SMBC Nikko arranged the USD 272m repricing of Owl Rock CLO XI, which cut spreads on the deal's triple A paper by 105bps

Oaktree prices US and European CLOs in single day

Oaktree priced two CLOs to close out last week – a new European issue titled Arbour CLO XVI via Citi, and a reset of a 2024-vintage US BSL transaction through SMBC Nikko

Birch Grove and Napier Park price US BSL CLOs
Birch Grove CLO 16 priced its triple As at 120bps, while Napier Park’s Regatta 36 Funding saw its senior top-of-stack paper clear 5bps wider

US BSL CLO rankings – February 2026
Blackstone leads Bain and Palmer Square after two months of 2026 US BSL issuance in Creditflux’s latest league table rankings. Among arrangers, it's Bank of America that leads from Citi, but it's SMBC Nikko that is making waves, ranking fifth ahead of JPMorgan

New Antares US BSL CLO prices AAAs at 115bps
Antares has matched the existing new-issue tight for US BSL CLOs with its latest print, Orion CLO 2026-7, priced via SMBC Nikko

Benefit Street Partners issues 2026's first new CLO
SMBC Nikko was the sole arranger for Benefit Street Partners CLO 47, which priced as a USD 506m offering

Muzinich and SMBC partner on European loan originations
The partnership will focus on double B and single B-rated new issues in the European public broadly syndicated loan market

SMBC hires Citi’s head of US CLO trading
EXCLUSIVE: SMBC Nikko has hired the head of Citi’s US CLO trading desk, according to sources

US resets flow as Oak Hill Advisors sets new AA benchmark
Around USD 1.38bn of resets priced this week from Oak Hill Advisors, Carlyle, UBS and Intermediate Capital Group, with OHA's print setting a new benchmark in the double As of SOFR plus 150bps

Permira pairs with SMBC Nikko for latest US CLO
Upsized to USD 531m, Permira’s latest new issue was the third from the manager since it launched its US platform in November last year

US refis issue from TPG Angelo Gordon, Invesco and Columbia
The three managers refinanced US CLOs at the close of last week, with the repriced paper totalling just over USD 1bn in value

Starwood’s latest infra CLO issues via five arrangers
Jefferies led the cohort of five banks that worked on the deal, the manager’s second of 2025

Blue Owl lowers private credit CLO spreads with USD 1bn new issue
Blue Owl has set new post-Liberation Day spread tights for mid-market issues with its latest print, a week after setting the previous low for triple As

Starwood prices its first infra CLO for the year
The deal is the second infrastructure-focused transaction of 2025, following DWS’ RIN XII last month

SMBC swoops in to take JPMorgan’s CLO leadership
In one of the most dramatic moves the CLO market has ever seen, SMBC Nikko has swooped in and hired three of the most senior members of JPMorgan’s CLO leadership team

Apogem holds second reset for 2017 vintage
Apogem's third deal in 2024 is another reset, this time of MCF CLO V, a 2017 MM CLO that was already reset once in 2021

Atlas SP keeps it in the family for CLO arranging debut
Apollo affiliate Atlas SP has made its lead arranger debut, taking the reins on refinancing a CLO managed by fellow Apollo affiliate Redding Ridge

Blue Owl prints middle-market CLO with 5Y RP
Blue Owl Credit Advisors priced a new middle-market CLO Tuesday with the first five year reinvestment periods in a private credit CLO since 2018

AMCC resets 2020 vintage US BSL CLO
American Money Management Corporation on Tuesday reset AMMC CLO 23, a BSL CLO from 2020

Antares resets 2019 vintage MM CLO
Antares Capital Management undertook its first primary market pricing activity of the year last week, with a middle market reset of a 2019-vintage deal arranged by SMBC Nikko